Plug Image in Acronis version 9.

I recently installed Acronis True Image version 9 and after making a Full Backup and a Disc Image to another Hard Drive all seems to be working well.

Today however, I thought I would try to Backup Documents and Settings only and that also was no problem but when I tried to Plug the Image, so I could explore it as a Virtual Drive I was told it could not be done as it contained no Partitions.

So I presume that if a single File or Folder is presented as a Backup it can not be viewed etc.afterwards in a Virtual Drive, as a Full or Incremental Backup can?

Many thanks for your swift reply and I tried what you said going into Windows Explorer but when I double click the Image it opens up in Acronis but then a window again says "Specified archive cannot be plugged since it contains no partitions", so I am unable to get assigned a Drive Letter.

Daibus, are you running the latest version of True Image 9? I've noticed there have been at least two updates for TI9 since it's release(safe to assume it may be a bit buggy considering it's a new product).

Many thanks for your reply and I'm running version 2277 however I contacted Aconis and they replied to me in 4 hrs no less, with their answer:-

Please keep in mind that, though both file archives and disk/partition images have a default “.tib” extension, only images can be plugged in. You will never be able to plug in an archive, containing file/folders backup.

Please be aware that if you want to restore individual files from the files/folders image then you can use "Recovery" option.

That looks about right.Only full images can be "explored" if you want to check individual files,you'll have to "recover" them.Just becareful you don't "recover" them OTT of present files.(DI2002 has similar feature,and allows you to specify where the files recovered to)